Every star sign's horoscope for Mercury Retrograde: What the cosmic event means for you
During this particular retrograde, we can expect our dreaded exes to reappear in our lives because Leo rules the heart chakra. So, prepare yourself to get a random text from a former partner who's thirsty for some more of your attention. Respond or not, that is up to you, but fair warning: you might not get the results you want.
If you are going to respond, the best day to do so — and to take action in any aspect of your life, actually — is on 31st July when the Sun and Mercury retrograde connect, forming 'cazimi,' which heightens the power of the planet to jumpstart any situation. Read on for how Mercury Retrograde 2025 will impact each zodiac sign.
You might feel a little bored by your daily activities, urging you to do something out of the ordinary. Before you go skydiving or parasailing, consider doing something a bit more practical, like getting a cool manicure and pedicure with awesome art or taking the long way home from work.
The ongoing issue with a coworker isn't being resolved easily; therefore, you need to discuss the situation with someone in the office whom you can trust, whether human resources or your group leader. You should try to mend the matter through a third party and put the issue to bed.
Don't get it twisted, Gem! Getting tongue-tied in conversations could dampen your communication style. If you can't express your sentiments correctly, try journaling them out to get them off your chest. It'll be a relief to have a system that works for you to alleviate and understand your feelings best.
You might have to go into your piggy bank to pay a few bills over the next several weeks. Do not get discouraged, you'll gain control over your finances shortly. In the meantime, shop sales and use discount codes on orders. Every penny counts when you are on a budget.
Your head is spinning due to information overload. This is all the more reason for you to take a break between conversations with your besties, boss, and family members to find the right words to say and comprehend matters without confusion. Doing so will help you maintain a clear mind.
This is your calling to put on Netflix and basically rot. If you want to bring that vibe to the beach, go for it. Just try to unwind and relax. That means not engaging with people who stress you out or taking on extra projects at work. Peace out of responsibilities now.
Friendships are very important to you, so much so that you'd do anything to keep the vibe going strong. PSA: Your crew may be unavailable to you. Just because they're busy doesn't mean they don't adore you. Distract yourself with hobbies and work to ensure their behaviour doesn't burn you.
Don't sweat the small stuff at work. Yes, your promotion and raise are taking longer than expected. These delays are common when Mercury is backpedaling in the cosmos. Sooner or later, you'll receive the recognition and pay increase you deserve. Have patience! The world's going to be your oyster again.
You may find that a former interest that you've studied in the past is coming back in style. Whether it's the tuba or French philosophy, you'll be deep into reacquainting yourself with the topic. However, when the retrograde ends, you'll stash it under your bed with all your other relics.
Money, power, and fame are at your fingertips. The caveat is that instead of concentrating on attaining the three things that make your world go round, you're hung up on unimportant drama. Don't get sidetracked by frivolous fights that will be resolved easily; maintain your laser focus to attain greatness.
A former flame is looking real cute in their IG selfies, propelling you to send a flirty DM. Even though you might think you'll make it as a couple this time, their actions will speak louder than words. Pay close attention to their behaviour and their Stories on social media.
Keep your plans light! Do not overcommit to cocktails with two groups of friends at different places across town when you have an early breakfast meeting with management or a client. Perhaps a glass of white wine in the earlier hours of the evening with a few pals will do.
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Does that lead to some an asset bubble? Maybe it does. But I think at this point, we're not seeing any clear negative signs or things that investors should be super worried about. Anand Chokkavelu: As you all look through the earnings and the conference call transcripts or listen to the conference calls, was there a best quote that stood out, Matt? Matt Frankel: Not one that I can think of off the top of my head. Most bank CEOs, with maybe the exception of Jamie Dimon, sound very optimistic about how things are going and the looser regulation environment, things like that. Jamie Dimon's been really the one sounding the alarm. I don't have a specific quote in front of me, but he's been cautioning about the impacts of tariffs on inflation and things like that for months now. This quarter's report was no exception. Jason Hall: I'll paraphrase a little bit with Jamie Dimon. I'm going to stick with him. He is certainly the most quotable of the big bank CEOs. If you get into some of the smaller banks, there's some pretty outspoken people. But Jamie Dimon has been the most notable anti-crypto bank CEO over the past decade. He's having to begrudgingly accept that JP Morgan Chase needs to participate in crypto. Just to phrase a very simple statement that he made about stablecoin, I think they're real, but why use them? We're all trying to figure that out, Jamie. Anand Chokkavelu: Well, if you all had to buy one of the six, which one are you buying, Matt? Matt Frankel: To be clear, I can make a good buy case for any of the six right now. Jason mentioned the potential corporate tax tailwinds. The president campaigned on a 15% corporate tax rate. Banks would be probably the biggest beneficiary of that in terms of the S&P sectors. Most of these banks you're looking at have effective tax rates in the low 20s. That would be a big boost to their bottom lines. You mentioned Wells Fargo's Asset CAP being lifted, which, although this quarter wasn't the best, that can make things interesting going forward now that they're allowed to grow again in arguably a pretty good growth environment for banks. But if I had to buy one today, I'd say probably Citigroup. It's still very much in turnaround. I have joked, but literally, their turnaround has been going on for about 17 years now. It's been a few CEOs, pretty much ever since the end of the financial crisis. No, well, it's true. It's still very much a turnaround, but it's an excellent value, and the recent numbers make it seem even more so. It trades for about 0.8 times book value. But I give a close second to Bank of America, which is a large bank holding in my portfolio, and I think it's closer in quality to JP Morgan Chase than the market seems to think. Jason Hall: Matt, you're a value investor, and if there's any one thing that I've learned about investing in these large banks, first thing you have to focus on is quality, finding the ones that have good credit quality, great assets that they own with a margin of safety, and the banks on the margins, they're growing at really high rates. A lot of time. It's because they've lower credit quality, which means that they've maybe started the timer on the bomb that's going to blow up. Being mindful of the quality and just as important as valuation. These are enormous institutions. Counting on them to be able to grow into valuations is a great way to buy underperformance. Also, it's also a great way to set yourself up potentially for losses that it may be hard to hold through when we do go through those inevitable downturns, economic periods of a weak economy, recession. To me, that makes it, and maybe this is heresy to say, but JP Morgan Chase, almost unbiable because it has earned a very high valuation. It has earned it because it is the gold standard, but it's hard to see a picture where it's an outperforming stock over the long term from this level of valuation because it is so enormous. I think you have to find pockets of opportunity. Bank of America trades for around 1.3 times book value, about 13 times earnings. That's not cheap, but it's not expensive. You're buying what I think is also just pretty close to JP Morgan Chase in terms of extremely high quality for these really big businesses, extraordinarily well run, very well positioned. If we do see things that could boost its profits like lower interest rates, the lighter regulatory hand help drive its earnings up. But I also think that Matt's right that city, again, I want to be careful about using value. It trades for a discount to its book value, but for a reason, the returns that it's earned off of its assets have been substantially lower than all of its peers for a very long time. There's still a lot of work to do to boost those returns to a level that's even close to its peers. It trades for that cheap book value for a good reason. It's not worth what those other ones are because it doesn't get the return from those assets. But because the turnaround, we have clear signals that the turnaround is working, Jane Fraser is building a more focused business, moving away from markets that have dragged on returns over the long time and hurt profits. Those are all the right things to do. I would say, from a risk reward perspective, city is really compelling as a turnaround. Anand Chokkavelu: You two are braver than me. I'm still once bitten, twice shy on city, but maybe I'll have to take another look. As always, people on the program may have interest in the stocks they talk about, and the Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against. Don't buy or sell stocks based solely on what you hear. While personal finance content follows Motley Fool Editorial standards is not approved by advertisers. Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only via our Fool advertising disclosure. Please check out our show notes. Up next, we've got stocks on our radar. Stay right here. You'll listen to Motley Fool Money. I'm Anand Chokkavelu, joined again by Jason Hall and Matt Frankel. After years of procrastination and hang ringing, I was wondering how best to get my kids into investing, and I finally did it. I've got my systems in place. Each month, the kids will get a little money from my wife and me. The default is that it'll go into my favorite one-stop index fund. It's the Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund. It's VT, for short, the ticker. I explained to the kids that it has close to 10,000 holdings, 10,000 different companies, pretty much has every major company in the world, including ones they'd know, like Roblox, Starbucks, Nintendo, Target, all the kid favorites. The younger one took my default and used that. The older one actually surprised me and lobbied to pick his own stock. He wanted MercadoLibre, since he'd heard me talking about it as the Amazon of South America. He noticed that it wasn't one of the Top 25 holdings in VT. I was trying to bore them with the top holdings, to trying to get them excited, but probably boring them by showing them the companies. He wanted more exposure to Mercado Libre. So far, I'm calling the month one success, experiment, a big success. Do you two have similar setups? I'm curious what you do. Jason Hall: I have an eight-year-old who's far more interested in playing baseball and soccer and playing soccer on his Nintendo Switch, and reading Harry Potter than talking about stocks with the Old Man. At this point, I think it's just been far more important just to have him invested college savings. We have a small trust setup as well. Then for him to know that he's invested. Now, he's starting to become more aware of what I do for work. He told me yesterday, it sounds a little narcissistic, but I picked him up from camp, and I had earlier week episode with Emily and you. We were listening for the Motley Fool Money episode, we were listening to and he's like, listening to me. He says, Dad, I want to listen to you every time you're on the podcast now. It's weird, but if that's the thing that draws him in, I'm totally fine with that. I do think fundamentally the most important thing is that if I can help him build up the muscles of delayed gratification and paying for your future self first, whether he gets the stock picking bug or just indexes his way to a solid financial future is far less important to me. Matt Frankel: I'm making this a priority over the next year, so like Jason. I have a seven-year-old son who I'm not 100% sure knows what I do for a living. But my oldest is about to be 10, my daughter. She gets what I do. I bought her some Disney stock in her portfolio. Generally, so far, I just have allocated money every month or so to a GMA account, a custodial account, and put it in whatever I've been buying. It's built them a nice position in SoFi. But, other than that, I'm going to make this a priority to really get them involved, probably when they hit that 10-year-old mark. Anand Chokkavelu: Let's get to everyone's favorite stocks on our radar. Our man behind the glass, Dan Boyd, is going to hit you with a question, or more likely historically, an amusing comment. Jason, you're up first. What are you looking at this week? Jason Hall: Live Oak Bank shares. Ticker, LOB reports earnings on July 23rd, so that's one that I'm really laser-focused on coming up soon. Anand Chokkavelu: Dan, a question about Live Oak Bank shares? Dan Boyd: Jason, I was looking on Wikipedia here. They're in Wilmington, North Carolina, Live Oak Bank, and they have got looks like at their headquarters, a nice central Oak tree growing. What happens if that tree dies? [laughs] Jason Hall: Their CEO is going to take an acorn from that tree, and he's going to plant another one because he is thinking about what's going to be happening decades down the road and not what happens next quarter. Dan Boyd: Good answer. Anand Chokkavelu: That's a better answer than my dead oak bank shares. [laughs] Matt, what's on your radar? Matt Frankel: Let me start off with a question because I know the three, Jason, Anand, and myself are homeowners, but Dan, are you a homeowner? Dan Boyd: I am, yes. Matt Frankel: Well, I'm looking at Rocket Companies ticker symbol RKT. The reason is because homeowners like us have not been tapping into equity for about four years now, since mortgage rates are elevated. Home prices have been rising, and now American homeowners are sitting on $35 trillion in home equity, the highest level ever. In the 2021 period, rockets loan volume was about four times what it is today. I think if rates start to fall down like I think they will, we could see a refinancing boom that makes the 2021 will actually look small. Anand Chokkavelu: Dan, a question about Rocket Companies? Dan Boyd: Two comments here, Matt. One, when you said RKT, I got excited because I thought you were talking about Rice Krispies treats. It's almost lunchtime here, and I'm starting to feel it a little bit. I refinanced my home in 2020. Right now, we're talking about the old golden handcuffs. They're going to have to drag me out of here, pal. Matt Frankel: It would take a lot for people to start tapping into their equity. I know Anand actually refinanced twice, if I'm not mistaken, during that period. I think he was the one on my friends list that did, but pretty much everyone I know refinanced. Jason Hall: I actually had a mortgage broker tell me to stop calling him. I wanted to refinance so many times. Anand Chokkavelu: Wow. Jason Hall: True story. Anand Chokkavelu: Wow. Dan, which company are you putting on your watch list? Dan Boyd: Just because of the vibes, I think I'm going to go Rocket Companies this time around. It seems like it might be an interesting time for opportunities. Anand Chokkavelu: Excellent. Jason Hall, Matt Frankel, thanks for being here. That's going to do it for this week's Motley Fool Money Radio Show. The show is mixed by Dan Boyd. I'm Anand Chokkavelu. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time. Bank of America is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Citigroup is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. JPMorgan Chase is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Wells Fargo is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Anand Chokkavelu, CFA has positions in Amazon, Bitcoin, Block, Ethereum, JPMorgan Chase, MercadoLibre, Netflix, Nintendo, PayPal, Rocket Companies, SoFi Technologies, Starbucks, Target, Vanguard International Equity Index Funds - Vanguard Total World Stock ETF, and Walt Disney. Dan Boyd has positions in Amazon and Walt Disney. Jason Hall has positions in Bitcoin, Live Oak Bancshares, MercadoLibre, SoFi Technologies, Starbucks, and Walt Disney and has the following options: short January 2026 $27 calls on SoFi Technologies and short September 2025 $125 calls on Starbucks. Matt Frankel has positions in Amazon, Bank of America, Block, MercadoLibre, PayPal, Roblox, Rocket Companies, SoFi Technologies, Starbucks, and Walt Disney. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon, Bitcoin, Block, Ethereum, JPMorgan Chase, Live Oak Bancshares, MercadoLibre, Netflix, PayPal, Roblox, Starbucks, Target, and Walt Disney. The Motley Fool recommends Nintendo and Rocket Companies and recommends the following options: long January 2027 $42.50 calls on PayPal and short September 2025 $77.50 calls on PayPal. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Netflix Continues to Dominate was originally published by The Motley Fool Sign in to access your portfolio
